Oh, so many things.....
Well, I look outside my window here, and there's the full span of the bay bridge. When I wake up in the morning, I say the water reflect off the bay fill my whole living room. I've never seen bay windows that are as beautiful as these outside of san francisco - and these are average for the city. My house doesn't have an air conditioner and will never need it. My heater is on very little too. I can keep my windows open year-round, which is something you can't do anywhere else in this country. There is not one location that has a better climate in this country, and only a handful of other regions in the world can even compare.
On Saturday morning, I can walk to any number of places to get breakfast. If I can deal with walking on a 12% grade, I can get some really, really yummy breakfast that I can't get at any suburban chain. Yea, the restaurant is small and I'm pretty much on top of other customers, but so it goes. Tomorrow morning, when I go to work I'll run down a 10% grade hill, which may or may not be foggy, and hop into one of the best transit systems in the country, and make my nearly 40 mile commute in under an hour. Can you get 40 miles in LA in under an hour?
After I have my breakfast tomorrow, it's not a question of what I'm doing to do, but what I have time to do. Embarcadero is all backed up from all the B&Ters trying to get into the farmers market, so I'll either hop in my bike or take the muni rail. While I'm on the embarcadero, I have an absolutely beautiful, smog free view of the bay. THere is never any smog. The pacific breeze is so cleansing that I can run ten miles up and down grueling hills and never have any difficulty breathing.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do Saturday afternoon. I can go hang out at a coffee shop in the mission and have some of the best coffee that I've ever had. I can walk down to a taqueria from there and get a real burrito for like $6. Nothing I've ever had anywhere compares to either that coffee or that burrito. I can drive to Pac Heights and do whatever the hell I damn want to.
I never have to decide which sh!tty chain restaurant to eat at. I never have to wonder which bar I'm going to go to, there's always new stuff that I haven't been. When I'm done with that, I never have to figure out how I'm going to get home really wasted because the city is so small that I can take a cab from nearly anywhere and be at my house for like $10. I never get lonely, because there are too many, many things to do and too many cool people with interesting stories.
Parking sucks because you don't live in the city and you suck at city parking. I live in a neighborhood where I park pretty much on the street, and never a block away, even on street cleaning days. I can get into the FiDi in twenty minutes. I don't have to cross the damn bridge on saturday nights and I know better places to go than all the sh!tty, useless B&Ters from Concord or San Ramon, and I don't have to go back to everything that I moved away from when I move here.
Everyone that doesn't like it here is more than welcome to not ever come back. From what I can tell though, every saturday morning and every saturday evening, the bridge is packed and 101 north is a traffic jam, so it looks like more than enough people want to come here.
I would never live in L.A.
Well, I look outside my window here, and there's the full span of the bay bridge. When I wake up in the morning, I say the water reflect off the bay fill my whole living room. I've never seen bay windows that are as beautiful as these outside of san francisco - and these are average for the city. My house doesn't have an air conditioner and will never need it. My heater is on very little too. I can keep my windows open year-round, which is something you can't do anywhere else in this country. There is not one location that has a better climate in this country, and only a handful of other regions in the world can even compare.
On Saturday morning, I can walk to any number of places to get breakfast. If I can deal with walking on a 12% grade, I can get some really, really yummy breakfast that I can't get at any suburban chain. Yea, the restaurant is small and I'm pretty much on top of other customers, but so it goes. Tomorrow morning, when I go to work I'll run down a 10% grade hill, which may or may not be foggy, and hop into one of the best transit systems in the country, and make my nearly 40 mile commute in under an hour. Can you get 40 miles in LA in under an hour?
After I have my breakfast tomorrow, it's not a question of what I'm doing to do, but what I have time to do. Embarcadero is all backed up from all the B&Ters trying to get into the farmers market, so I'll either hop in my bike or take the muni rail. While I'm on the embarcadero, I have an absolutely beautiful, smog free view of the bay. THere is never any smog. The pacific breeze is so cleansing that I can run ten miles up and down grueling hills and never have any difficulty breathing.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do Saturday afternoon. I can go hang out at a coffee shop in the mission and have some of the best coffee that I've ever had. I can walk down to a taqueria from there and get a real burrito for like $6. Nothing I've ever had anywhere compares to either that coffee or that burrito. I can drive to Pac Heights and do whatever the hell I damn want to.
I never have to decide which sh!tty chain restaurant to eat at. I never have to wonder which bar I'm going to go to, there's always new stuff that I haven't been. When I'm done with that, I never have to figure out how I'm going to get home really wasted because the city is so small that I can take a cab from nearly anywhere and be at my house for like $10. I never get lonely, because there are too many, many things to do and too many cool people with interesting stories.
Parking sucks because you don't live in the city and you suck at city parking. I live in a neighborhood where I park pretty much on the street, and never a block away, even on street cleaning days. I can get into the FiDi in twenty minutes. I don't have to cross the damn bridge on saturday nights and I know better places to go than all the sh!tty, useless B&Ters from Concord or San Ramon, and I don't have to go back to everything that I moved away from when I move here.
Everyone that doesn't like it here is more than welcome to not ever come back. From what I can tell though, every saturday morning and every saturday evening, the bridge is packed and 101 north is a traffic jam, so it looks like more than enough people want to come here.
I would never live in L.A.
Born and raised in Bay Area. Not in SF, but my Dad and his whole side of the family was born and grew up there, most still live there.
Personally, I hate it.
Personally, I hate it.
More than that, SF is a party city. The scene. Some of the music, the people, the drugs, everything. If you don't party, and the only concern you have is the chinese food, well then it's going to be hard to understand.
I didn't go out tonight because I'm working. But damn, this is my first Thurday at home in a long time.
Which has some awesome bars.
Bourbon and Branch
Rye
Element
Ambassador (if that's your thing)
Bourbon and Branch has decor and a theme that no where else outside of NYC has. Rye is just a damn cool place, and I could go on and on and on.....
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You can hit on any girl that is out with a guy and that guy will help try to hook you up with her....99.6% of the time.
there is certainly something for everybody. my brother hits up castro every weekend. i prefer a nice quiet dinner with my girl, and there's always a new restaurant to try.
most importantly, we can do this without the worry of a drive-by or some thug putting a bullet through your window going 90 on the 10.
what do you guys use to find new restaurants in sf or the southbay? I've used citysearch and yelp and it's still hit or miss.
it's not a great place to live if you value money, parking, free time, sunshine, open spaces, cleanliness, or quiet.
I prefer talking my car to breakfast so I can drive home on a full stomach (I hate walking when I'm full). 40 miles in under an hour in LA? Very possible on the weekends and even during the week depending on the time but I honestly dont remember the last time I've had to drive 40 miles in LA. BTW, can you get across the bay bridge in morning and afternoon rush hour in a respectable amount of time?
No problems for breathing with me. If I really wanted to waste some time outside (which I really dont care for), Malibu is pretty much around the corner.
Got about a million coffee shops within a 2 mile radius...
Parking sucks because I dont live in the city? not sure what that means. Funny how I suck with city parking when others have agreed with me that parking sucks. Sometime people have to get out of residential parts and go to civic center, financial district, etc...
I really wouldnt be there if I didnt have to be.
I just wish more people thought like you.
To those of you that hate it, just wait for the earthquakes to hit. That place is a ticking time bomb.
:music:To Live and Die in LA.... it's the place to beeeeeeeeeee:music:
Gotta say I prefer LA to SF any day....
<---Lives in NY
<---Wishes he was in CA
Gotta say I prefer LA to SF any day....
<---Lives in NY
<---Wishes he was in CA
ooh.. so you're from LA.. yeah, go back, we don't want you here... LA is a freakin hell hole.. everyone down there is fake and pretentious... ugh.. i guess if you like ridiculously hot weather, then yeah, the perfect blue skys with high 60's to low 70's would be "bad weather"... go back to LA and breathe in your smog
parking sucks cuz its 5 minutes for a quarter, and some ridiculous parking regulations, like no parking from 3pm-6pm, or 4pm-7pm...wtf is up with that?!?
it's called rush hour, and they have that on many streets in LA. trying to open up an extra lane for cars to get through.
gas is also $4/gallon for premium in a lot of places here.
maybe people should consider walking more in the nation's #1 city for walking. it's no wonder that i rarely see fat people in the city. couldn't say that about the LA folks, nope.
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